What were you listening to? (CLOSED)

[Don]

All the male DJs on this station have this annoying tenor voice, like they were all cloned. I'd like to hear a nice baritone once in a while. In fact, there was a baritone not too far back, but he didn't last long. Probably done away with by the tenor-clones.

I knew that clones would inherit the Earth; just wasn't aware that they would all be tenors.

[karlhenning]

Saint-Saëns
Allegro appassionata for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 43
Laszlo Varga

[PaulR]

Brahms:  Piano concerto #1 in d minor Ax/Levine/CSO

what a brilliant opening....

[rubio]

The first of three Messiah's that I will isten to the coming days by the John Butt/Dunedin Consort on Linn records. This interpretation is really fresh and the singin gis right up my alley (just a 12-voice chorus and chorus-members taking all the solos). Superb! Next up is Christie and Hogwood.

[Don]

Saint-Saëns
Allegro appassionata for Cello and Orchestra, Opus 43
Laszlo Varga

If Varga doesn't have a tenor voice, he won't be with us very long.  Although a baritone, I fully intend to become a tenor.

[karlhenning]

Saint-Saëns
Concerto for Cello No. 2 in D Minor, Opus 119
Laszlo Varga

If Varga doesn't have a tenor voice, he won't be with us very long.  Although a baritone, I fully intend to become a tenor.

Consult a physician first!

[MN Dave]

If Varga doesn't have a tenor voice, he won't be with us very long.  Although a baritone, I fully intend to become a tenor.

Nothing a little home surgery can't fix for you.  

[Don]

Nothing a little home surgery can't fix for you.  

Not to worry.  I can endure great amounts of pain.  Pass the tylenol please!

[karlhenning]

Vaughan Williams
A Sea Symphony
Sheila Armstrong, soprano
John Carol Chase, baritone
London Phil Choir
London Phil
Boult

I may just possibly, and by a slight margin, prefer the recenter recording by Haitink. But this is still easily worth repeat visits!

[MN Dave]

ding ding ding!

1:07Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Quartet: 3rd movement
Arnaud Sussmann, violin
Beth Guterman, viola
David Finckel, cello
Wu Han, piano
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1:03John Foster - While shepherds watched their flocks
Peter Holman, conductor
Psalmody & The Parley of Instruments
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[rubio]

This performance convinces me that Dvorak's piano concerto can be a great work. I cannot imagine finding a better recording of this concerto.

[Que]

This performance convinces me that Dvorak's piano concerto can be a great work. I cannot imagine finding a better recording of this concerto.

Same here.

Q

[karlhenning]

Noted, with gratitude.

[not edward]

This performance convinces me that Dvorak's piano concerto can be a great work. I cannot imagine finding a better recording of this concerto.

Have you (or anyone else?) heard the Janacek on this disc and can compare it to Firkusny's DG recordings with Kubelik?

[rubio]

Have you (or anyone else?) heard the Janacek on this disc and can compare it to Firkusny's DG recordings with Kubelik?

I have not heard the Kubelik recordings, and I'm not very familiar with these works. But they do sound good to me.

[Keemun]

[Mark]

Currently traversing Schubert's earlier symphonies in quick succession and for the first time, noting how his style became ever more romantic and less like a derivative of later-period Haydn and Mozart. I've made it to his Sixth (I'm using the Naxos cycle, as I've been too lazy to get another as yet), and I have to say that I like best his Third and Fourth ... so far.

[Mark]

This:



Great music (the Janacek especially), but congestedly captured, with irritating peak distortion closing in at the edges of the sound picture during forte sections. A shame, as this lack of attention to engineering partially spoils an otherwise beautiful set of recordings.

EDIT: I take back my slur on the reputations of the engineers of this recording - I just noticed my EQ had got turned on by accident and was horribly skewed. This admitted, the acoustic does still get a bit boxy and claustrophobic at times on this disc.

[greg]

[Lilas Pastia]

Delightful, non è vero?

I think it's non è ver? And the answer is : è vero.